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Investigators and Program Directors

Barbara Weiser and Harold Burger

Barbara Weiser, Research Physician, Wadsworth Center, Bloodborne Diseases
M.D., University of Pittsburgh
Postdoctoral training, UCSF and Stanford University

Harold Burger, Research Physician, Wadsworth Center, Viral Diseases
Ph.D., The Rockefeller University; M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Postdoctoral training, Stanford University

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  • Weiser B, Philpott S, Klimkait T, Burger H, Kitchen C, Bürgisser P, Gorgievski M, Perrin L, Piffaretti, Ledergerber B, and the Swiss HIV Cohort Study. HIV-1 coreceptor uasge and CXCR4-specific viral load predict clinical disease progression during combination antiretroviral therapy. AIDS, 22:469-479.
  • Cardozo T, Kimura T, Philpott S, Weiser B, Burger H, Zolla-Pazner S. (2007) Structural basis for coreceptor selectivity by the HIV-1 V3 loop. AIDS Res and Hum Retroviruses ;23:415-426.
  • Reinis M, Weiser B, Kuiken C, Dong T, Lang D, Nachman S, Zhang Y, Rowland-Jones S, Burger H. (2007) Genomic analysis of HIV strains derived from a mother and child pair of long-term non-progressors. AIDS Res and Hum Retroviruses; 23:309-315.
  • Kemal KS, Burger H, Mayers D, Anastos K, Foley B, Kitchen C, Huggins P, Schroeder T, Picchio G, Back S, Gao W, Meyer WA III, Weiser B. (2007) HIV-1 drug resistance in variants from the female genital tract and plasma. J Infect Dis ; 195>:535-545
  • Philpott S, Burger H, Tsoukas C, Foley B, Anastos K, Kitchen C, Weiser B. (2005) Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 genomic RNA sequences in the female genital tract and blood: comparmentalization and intrapatient recombination. J Virol ,79:353-363.
  • Schroeder T, Burger H, Weiser B, Bengualid V, Kimani J, Anzala AO, Parker M, Lamson D, Philpott S. (2005) Characterization of intersubtype recombinant HIV-1 genomes using a non radioactive heteroduplex tracking assay. AIDS Res and Hum Retroviruses ; 21:314-318.
  • Kitchen CMR, Philpott S, Burger H, Weiser B, Anastos K, Suchard MA. (2004) Evolution of HIV-1 coreceptor usuage during antiretroviral therapy: a Bayesian approach, J Virol ,78: 11296-11302.
  • Shi B, Philpott SM, Weiser B, Kuiken C, Brunner C, Fang G, Fowke KR, Plummer FA, Rowland-Jones S, Bwayo J, Anzala AO, Kimani J, Kaul R, Burger H. (2004)Construction of an infectious HIV-1 molecular clone from an African patient with a subtype D/C recombinant virus. AIDS Res and Hum Retroviruses , 9:1015-1018
  • Fang G, Kuiken C, Weiser B, Rowland-Jones S, Plummer F, Chen CH, Kaul R, Anzala AO, Bwayo J, Kimani J, Philpott SM, Kitchen C, Sinsheimer J, Gaschen B, Lang D, Shi B, Kemal KS, Rostron T, Brunner C, Beddows S, Sattenau Q, Paxinos E, Oyugi J, Burger H. (2004) Long-term survivors in Nairobi: complete HIV-1 RNA sequences and immunogenetic associations. J Infect Dis, 190:697-701
  • Fang G, Weiser B, Kuiken C, Philpott S, Rowland-Jones S, Plummer F, Kimani J, Shi B, Kaul R, Bwayo J, Anzala O, and Burger H. (2004) Recombination following superinfection by HIV-1. AIDS; 18:153-159.
  • Kemal KS, Foley B, Burger H, Anastos K, Minkhoff H, Kitchen C, Philpott S, Gao W, Robison E, Holman S, Dehner C, Beck S, Meyer W, Landay A, Kovacs A, Bremer J, Weiser B. (2003) HIV-1 in genital tract and plasma of women: compartmentalization of viral sequences, coreceptor usuage, and glycosylation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:12972-12977.
  • Philpott S, Weiser B, Anastos K, Kitchen CMR, Robison E, Meyer WA, Sacks HS, Mathur-Wagh U, Brunner C, and Burger H. (2001) Preferential suppression of CXCR4-specific strains of HIV-1 by antiviral therapy. J Clin Invest , 107:431-438.

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E-mail: weiser@wadsworth.org